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2. • There are many different scenarios in life where the
skills of a good event planner are needed. An
event planner might be utilized for any number of
corporate events, weddings, birthday parties or
basically any other important gathering.
• Whether you are looking to hire an event planner,
or you want to become one yourself, it’s important
to recognize the qualities of a good one.
3. ORGANIZATION
• This might be ‘the’ most important quality an event planner can
possess, and it is certainly evident in the best event planners. Just
think of every little detail of a large corporate event or a wedding,
and realize that the even planner must be in on every one of them.
• She must organize staff, venues, deadlines, food, menus and every
other element of the event. Without exceptional organizational skills,
confusion will surely set in and everything will fall apart. Attention to
detail is another element of organization that’s crucial in the arsenal
of a good event planner.
4. FLEXIBILITY
• One of the only things that are certain in event
planning is that nothing ever really goes exactly as
planned. A good event planner must be flexible
and be able to adapt to new situations as they
come up. Last minute cancellations and changes
are the norm, and if the event planner is flustered
the whole event might be in jeopardy.
5. CREATIVITY
• To really strike a chord and put on an event that the guests
haven’t seen before, it’s important to show a good deal of
creativity. Many clients have some definite ideas on how
they want their event to look and feel, but there are equal
amounts that have no idea. With these events, it’s often up
to the event planner to provide the ideas.
6. MULTI-TASKER
• An event planner is often more like a juggler than anything
else. It’s common for multiple projects to be on the agenda
on any given day or at any given time. She can’t just focus
on one element of an event at a time, or the event will never
be completely planned.
• The fact that there are usually many different aspects of an
event, and many different people involved sort of guarantees
that more than one element will be coming at you at a time.
It’s just one of those things that’s an inevitability in the world of
event planning.
7. BUDGETING SKILLS
• Every event has a budget, and some of them will seem quite
a bit smaller than what the client is asking for. A good event
planner must be able to work with all different kinds of
budgets and make them work for the client.
• Having a wide range of resources in different industries helps,
as does the ability to recognize how much different elements
will cost. Basic math and number crunching skills are also a
tremendous asset in the budgeting area of event planning.
8. CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS
• No matter how organized, flexible or smart you are, if you don’t have basic
customer service skills, you aren’t going to get very far. Clients have needs
and one of them is to communicate with the event planner on a regular basis.
And often, this communication involves problems that are happening with
some aspect of the event.
• It’s important for the event planner to put out fires, ease the client’s mind and
help them feel like everything is always under control. Customer service skills
are so important because your clients will talk. They will talk to their clients,
who may mention you to their clients, and so on. If that word of mouth is
good, your business may multiply faster than you’d imagined but if it isn’t, the
only thing you might be planning is where to look for a job.
9. TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS
• At the core of every event is time. It doesn’t matter if it’s
a wedding, a reunion or a big corporate event. It all has
to come together by a certain date at a certain time,
and it’s the event planner’s job to see that it happens
that way.
• Time management kind of goes along with multi-tasking,
and if an event planner can do both and respect
deadlines, half the battle is won.
